I have a doctors appointment coming up soon and I want to know what I should discuss with my doctor about trying a new medication. I have been on xanax .5mg/3x daily for about a year now for Social Anxiety, Panic attacks, anxiety attacks, etc. I have never thought the dose to be strong enough, but my doctor seems to disagreee. I dont want to just jump right out there and ask to up my dosage, but I have been doing a lot of reading lately and everyone else who seems to have my symptoms or conditions take up to 4-5 mg of xanax a day. Now I would rather not jump to that high of a dose, but instead ask for a longer acting benzo in combination with my xanax like clonzepam or valium, or even a switch to the mixture of those two. please, someone tell me they have had this problem!